Christopher Mckeehan Email & Phone Number

Monterey, Ca, Us

Monterey, Ca, Us

Army Medical Health Clinic

Lathrop, Ca

* Appointed Leading Petty Officer - Supervises, mentors, motivates and sets the example for junior personnel. * Provides feedback, training, performance evaluation, career advice, and enforces military standards and discipline. * Inform personnel of organizational goals and objectives, and monitors work to ensure fulfillment of goals. * Develop, implement, and monitor training program to ensure personnel remain current on all required credentials and qualifications.* Plan and instructs monthly classes to ensure training and mentoring is held to the highest standard. * Manage accountability, maintenance, and serviceability of high-value medical and support equipment. Conduct regular inspections of equipment and assets to ensure full working order. * Encourages a team concept approach in all assigned tasks. Allow junior sailors to lead to promote leadership and career development.* Draft and implement a plan that includes ordering supplies, travel, hotel, flights, point of contacts, meeting points and establishing a timeline for offsite dental examinations in five states.* Drafted, filed, and maintained medical records for assigned personnel, ensuring accurate, up-to-date data. * Recognized the need for, researched, drafted, and implemented Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for Additional Skill Identifier (ADI) acquisition as well as Authorized Dental Allowance List (ADAL) logistical procedures. * Operation Enduring, Afghanistan from 11/2009 to 06/2010. Senior medical - Directly responsible for the health, infection control, medical training, hygiene, and wellbeing of 150 assigned Marine Corps personnel.* Operation Iraqi Freedom, Fallujah from 10/2007 to 06/2008* Navy Achievement Medal (3)

Va Palo Alto Health Care System

Serves as an Advanced Medical Support Assistant and provides clerical and administrative support to patients in various specialty clinics. In direct support of 13 medical providers and 5 clinical staff social workers which handle direct contact with over 40 patients a day.SCHEDULING: Schedules and coordinates appointments for patients in the Mental Health Clinic, ensuring all treatment requested by the physician has been documented, scheduled, and rescheduled when necessary. Responsible for scheduling consults, sending consult scheduling letters, completing return to clinic orders, return to clinic letters, patient reassignments, and properly addressing in-crisis walk-ins. COMMUNICATION AND CUSTOMER SERVICE: Communicate tactfully and effectively, both orally and in writing, in order to meet program objectives and clinic goals. Provides information via telephone and in person to the veterans, members of the professional staff, civilian, and military personnel in response to inquiries regarding appointments. MANAGEMENT: Advanced knowledge of policies and procedures associated with operational activities that affect the patient flow and patient care. Advanced knowledge of managing a clinic; this includes independently utilizing reference sources, decision-making, multitasking and empowering the team of providers to collaborate and resolve problems within a complex systems environment. CLERICAL: Responsible for the clerical duties inherent in the admission (mental health patients), care and discharge of inpatients or the in processing, care out-processing of outpatients. Maintains all patients’ records, either electronic or paper, according to regulation ensuring each entry contains proper patient and health care provider identification. Enters, manipulates, and retrieves information and data from Vista, CPRS, VetLink, and other clinical information systems as appropriate to area assigned.

Signal Hill, Ca

* Communicated extensively with customers to relay information about products, such as firearms, ammunition and accessories. * Addressed questions and concerns regarding products, manufacturers, payment plans, warranties, and other pertinent issues clearly and concisely to ensure full understanding. * Assisted with development of marketing strategies, publicity plans, programs, and public relations, using marketing research survey methods and data analysis to determine customer needs. * Built relationships and increased business contracts using sales, as well as organizational and negotiation skills to promote and market services and products.* Maintained full knowledge of and adherence to all federal, state, and local regulations governing sale of firearms and ammunition. * Drafted and filed required documents, ensuring highest standards of accuracy and timeliness, meanwhile, still addressing in store and on the phone customers.

Diamond Bar, Ca

* Planned and executed Quality Assurance (QA) review of compensation and pension claims in support of customers such as the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). * Evaluated general and specialized medical reports for accuracy, validity, and completeness to ensure their compliance with VA Automated Medical Information Exchange (AMIE) requirements.* Provided technical guidance and counseling to supervisors, peers, and junior personnel, including those assigned to the Federal Employees’ Compensation Act (FECA) program, regarding procedures involved in reporting job-related illnesses/injuries and the processing of compensation claims. * Coordinated extensively with external organizations, such as the VA, in order to request additional information on or address discrepancies concerning medical reports such as those detailing long-term disabilities. * Scrutinized claims for accuracy, currency, and honesty. Identified potentially fraudulent information and submitted addenda to claimants’ providers to ascertain their opinions on the validity of the information.

Executive Masters Of Public Administration, Public Administration

In progress

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Interpersonal Communication / Language And Social Interaction

Activities and Societies: Lambda Pi Eta (LPE)- Sigma Phi Chapter; LPE Board Member - Marketing Coordinator; National Communication.

Associate Of Arts (Aa), Mass Communication/Media Studies